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[China] Chinese Women's Lung Cancer Rate Surging

The number of deaths in China caused by lung cancer has surged by 465 percent over the past 30 years, while Chinese women's lung cancer rate has become the world's highest, said experts at a launch ceremony for World Cancer Day in Wuhan, capital city of c
All-China Women's Federation (cn)
added Feb 5, 2013 17:44
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[UK] Women smokers more likely to be killed by their habit TODAY than in the 1960s

* Women smokers today start their habit earlier and until recently smoked more cigarettes per day
The Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday (uk)
added Jan 24, 2013 02:19
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[New York] U.S. Census Bureau Daily Feature for January 21: : NYC BANS WOMEN SMOKING

the more they resemble 1908. On this date that year, the New York City council passed an ordinance that made it illegal for women to smoke in public. The ordinance was the result of a campaign by the National Anti-Cigarette League.
PR Newswire
added Jan 23, 2013 18:06
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New Electronic Cigarette Brand Targets Women Smokers

Vaping Vamps is the first independent electronic cigarette brand to specifically target women. The rationale behind targeting women with a new e-cigarette company is simple: women buy more products online than men in most purchase categories, according t
Melodika.net (bg)
added Dec 12, 2012 15:33
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In Russia, Advertising Is Often Very Sexist -- And Very Weird

Ads being made in modern Russia look like the kind of thing we used to see in the U.S. in the early 1970s -- "sexy," but in the most sexist way . . . . This is a brand of Russian candy flavored-cigarettes targeting teenage girls.
Business Insider
added Nov 18, 2012 11:10
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[China] Most Chinese women exposed to second-hand smoke

Nearly two-thirds of women of reproductive age in China are exposed to second-hand tobacco smoke at home and over half are exposed in the workplace, which raises the risk of complications in pregnancy, including stillbirths and infant death. The findings
China Daily (cn)
added Nov 6, 2012 10:11
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[California] Tennessee women see rise in lung cancer deaths

Tennessee women who lit up Virginia Slims and other cigarette brands in the 1960s and 1970s as acts of liberation are dying of lung cancer more often than women of earlier generations.
The Tennessean
added Jul 16, 2012 06:35
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[Canada] Sex, Lies, and Cigarettes: Canadian Women, Smoking, and Visual Culture, 1880-2000 (9780773539778): Sharon Anne Cook

She argues that smoking's attraction is rooted in women's changing identity formation and in strategies for empowerment, an idea enriched through extensive analysis of visual culture. It is in these images (yearbooks, posters, photographic collages, print
amazon.com
added Jun 25, 2012 10:57
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[UK] STOPPARD: Why do young mums continue to put their baby at risk?

One in four still smoke when pregnant and the figure is higher among pregnant teens
The Mirror (uk)
added May 23, 2012 06:27
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New report shows more than one in five pregnant White women smoke cigarettes

Study shows significant differences in substance use rates among Blacks, Hispanics, and Whites
Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
added May 13, 2012 21:26
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